Wednesday, October 14, 2026

Relaxing Waterside Colour INKspiration


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight I'm joining in with the Colour INKspiration crew and our awesome colour combination!!



It took me a while to work out how I wanted to use these colours!!


But eventually I decided they worked really well with the  Relaxing Waterside bundle combined with some of the Everyday Essentials paper for the background.


This is a simple but fun fold where you chop off a bit of the cardstock and rotate it to create a fun feature of the front of the card!  


I'm a huge fan of these lovely grasses in this stamp set!!


Can't you just see yourself sitting in that chair taking it all in!!



YOu might have noticed the greeting? I used the Rounded Rectangle punch to create the size that I was after for the greeting on this card by popping the punched shape in again and punching to get the size I wanted!  A fun way to use our punches! 


INKspired to join the challenge? It's so easy. Firstly, get some INKspiration by checking out all of the creations of the Colour INKspiration Crew in the challenge album on our Facebook page. Then you have 12 days from today to make and upload your creation to the Facebook Colour INKspiration Group. You don't have to have a blog to participate but if you do you can link back to your post. Make sure you use all of the challenge colours. You can also use neutrals such as Basic White, Very Vanilla, Crumb Cake, Basic Beige and Basic Black as well as Metallics.

Not a member of the Colour INKspiration Facebook group yet? Just click here and ask to join Colour INKspiration, add the group to your favourites and share it with your crafty friends so they can join in the fun too. We can't wait to see what you create with these gorgeous colours.




Relaxing Waterside Colour INKspiration


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Sunday, October 11, 2026

Loving the Wreaths CTC591


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)



This week, we are CASEING the Sunflower Fields Suite - and I have used the colours of the Suite as my starting point.  They are:  Mossy Meadow, Old Olive, Cajun Craze, Pecan Pie, Daffodil Delight and Golden Glow.  


I used ALL of these colours to paint ink using a waterpainted onto the fabulous Detailed Wreath Accents.  The description on the website is:
Add a nature-inspired focal point to your handmade projects with the Detailed Wreaths Accents. This set includes precut wreaths and accents in a variety of styles that match the seasons, like spring flowers, autumn leaves, winter branches, and more. Perfect for cards, scrapbook pages, and other paper crafts, these versatile wreaths come in a neutral white so they can be personalised with Classic Stampin’ Ink, Stampin’ Blends, or your favourite colouring techniques.
And I agree wholeheartedly with this description!!


I left the wreaths in the die cut sheet and then coloured away with messy strokes, blending and leaving white space.  


After the whole sheet was painted and then dry, I popped out each of the die cuts and then started adding colour to all of the wreaths.


It was easy to add the flowers using mini glue dots and layering all the flowers around the wreaths.


I know they look somewhat messy, but I do love that look (to me it says ARTISTIC!! teehee)


Some of the wreaths became the name tags for my retreat day yesterday.  I tied them on the kit bags using the gorgeous sparkly Gold Mesh Ribbon which is now on the Last Chance list - so if you love it (like me), make sure you stock up before it all goes!!


Up next is the extraordinary Peta

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!



Watercoloured Detail Wreaths














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Sunday, October 04, 2026

All Wrapped Up Colour Inspiration CTC#590


Hello and Welcome to Handmade by Julia Quinn.


Tonight you get to enjoy our amazing CASEING the CATTY blog hop.  To CASE is to Copy And Share Everything or to Copy And Selectively Edit and we love to CASE from our amazing Stampin' Up! catalogues (catty!)



This week, we are CASEING the lovely and interesting colours of the All Wrapped Up designer paper.


My project features the lovely new Stitched Blooms bundle that was used in the Virtual Cardmaking Retreat and is also in our Online Exclusive collection coming in November.


My card base is one of the fabulous Festive Flecks cards and envelopes which are printed and coordinate together.  I have folded the card into a Z fold so that all of the printed gorgeousness is on show rather than being on the front and back of the card.  The Z fold was created by folding the card inside out and then folding the front flap back to see all the colour.


There are SO MANY amazing images and options in the Stitched Blooms stamp set which made decision making tricky in creating this card!!  


The gorgeous oval frames in this bundle also work fantastically well for a Z fold!


Up next is the extraordinary Judy

Make sure you keep hopping to see lots of great ideas!

Check out our Facebook group for lots more inspiration!



Stitched Blooms and Festive Flecks



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